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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:54:20 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: recursive grep 
Message-ID:  <199601222354.QAA01113@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 22 Jan 1996 16:16:55 %2B0100

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: I would like add options for recursive searching 
: (grep -R foo /usr/include). 

find /usr/local | xargs grep foo

Why do we need another wart on grep?  Especially when what you may
want is find /usr/local -name \*f.h | xargs grep foo :-)

Warner



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